Oh gosh, live chat was amazing... I got even a few answers to my questions! However the other tweeters kept Modern Westerners busy so they weren't able to answer all my questions. I picked the best answer I got.
For instance, Kevin himself gave me an answer which was about his coming filmprojects. I was really confused and happy at the same time! One thing I didn't like to...they never told whether they will come to Finland or not in the future! Looking forward that day...if they ever make it happen!
Have you visit Kevin Costner's Biography section in IMDb - The Internet Movie Database? There're a lot of interesting thoughts and decisions Kevin has made in his brilliant career. Maybe he should have taken some role he didn't like to? Or turn down some role he actually loved to act?
Kevin in For Love of the Game
"I don't mind Hollywood. After all, I don't make movies that are like avant garde or not understandable. I just like to make a mainstream movie with all the edges that existed in the writing and I don't like to see it flattened out in order to cater to audiences. I don't really give a shit what people think about my movie after watching it and giving it a test score, but I really care about what you think about it when you see it in its purity, because I don't feel like I'm going to lose you. I don't feel like my movies are going to be for everyone because they're not, because sometimes they're more adult and that eliminates kids."
Kevin directing Dances With Wolves
"I've always known what a good movie is. I've not often known what a hit is. I think The War (1994) is a good movie, but it's not a hit. I think A Perfect World (1993) is a good movie, but it's not a hit. And so what should I have done? Should I have turned my back on those movies? I can't do that, I just can't. If I can be in a good movie, then I can feel okay about it. I can feel okay about The Upside of Anger (2005), I can feel good about Open Range (2003), I can feel good about Mr. Brooks (2007). Is it a hit? It's not a hit, but it will make money. Am I proud of it? I am proud of it. No Way Out (1987) was a movie that was in turnaround. It was not going to be made. Bull Durham (1988) was not going to be made. We went to every studio twice. So when people want to look at my career in retrospect and go, 'Hit, hit, those movies were hits...' Well those movies weren't going to be hits unless we forced them onto the screen."
- Kevin
For instance, I picked a few interestings parts about Kevin:
Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1986" in John Willis' Screen World
Was considered for the lead in Air Force One (1997) (the part eventually went to Harrison Ford).
His character in Dragonfly (2002) was written with the intention of Harrison Ford taking the film role. Ford turned down the role to take a year off from movies.
Costner & Ford's casting choices have crossed paths many times before. Harrison Ford turned down the Jack Ryan role in The Hunt for Red October (1990) as did Kevin Costner. Harrison Ford instead made Presumed Innocent (1990) and Kevin Costner made his Oscar-winning Dances With Wolves (1990). The Jack Ryan role went to then character actor Alec Baldwin.
The President of the United States role in the mega-blockbuster Air Force One (1997) was written specifically for Kevin Costner. In fact, Kevin Costner helped develop the action film with Beacon Communications and writer Andrew W. Marlowe in 1996. But, Kevin had to eventually pass on the film because of work delays with his futuristic The Postman (1997). Costner called up Harrison Ford personally and offered Harrison a once-in-a-lifetime role. Harrison Ford accepted the role and has always thanked Kevin Costner in interviews for his kind gesture. Air Force One (1997) went on to become one of the highest grossing films of all time.
Kevin chilling out with Clint Eastwood while a lunch time
Harrison Ford later turned down the Jim Garrison role in Oliver Stone's JFK (1991) and Kevin Costner decided to take it after a meeting with the director Stone.
His frontal nude scene in For Love of the Game (1999) was reportedly deleted after being met with laughter at test screenings.
Turned down a role in Platoon (1986) because he thought it portrayed American soldiers in Vietnam negatively and didn't want to insult his brother, who was a Vietnam veteran.
Kevin has been hooked on golf a very long time. Actually, he has got some practice and is now such a golfer whose handicap is ~ 11. (Not bad at all!).
If you wanna see Kevin playing golf, you must check out his 1996 film Tin Cup in which he acts a failed pro golfer who lives in a Winnebago at a crummy driving range which he owns in the West Texas town of Salome. One day, a beautiful woman, Dr. Molly Griswold, appears at his driving range for golf lessons. She turns out to be the new girlfriend of McAvoy's longtime nemesis, the smarmy PGA superstar David Simms. Molly inspires Roy to start taking himself seriously again, and he decides to try to qualify for the US Open.
That's how it looked in 1996
...And that's how it looks over a decade
Kevin's "golf school"
in 1996 and in 2010
...And the funniest moment during a golf day
Kevin cleaning up a bunker on the 18th green at Pebble Beach, Calif., on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011, after two of his sons logged some play time in the sand.
